Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-09-30
FOREIGN.

has been prolonged for year.
EDMUND DwYER GRAY, NJ. P, will leave
on the 2Sth to make n tour of America.
FIFTY THOUSAND of the citizens of Mea-
5ina, Ital l. have fled the city on account
of the alarming mere se of the cholera.
IT Is reported that Ayoub Khan has
been captured near Kahn, on the Persian
frontier.
AHMED PARIS EFEENDI, celebrated
Arabian poet and writer, is dead.
EIGHTY THOUSAND socialist pamphlets
have been distributed in Berlin by wO-
meu, who managed to evade the eagle
eyes of the police.
ANOTHER great trial of ninilists is about
to be commenced at st. Petersburg. The
prisoners include fifteen officers of all
ranks.
PRINCE WILLIAM and the king of Sax
ony, in company with the emperor of
Austria, are hunting in Syria.
FINANCIAL houses in Paris have sub
scribed for 4SO0O,OOO francs worth of
the shares of the Simplon Tunnel com
pany.
The Council of Merchant Elders, of
Berlin, has presented memorial to Bis
marck asking him to send an imperial
commission to the Melbourne exposition.
The Patrie states that all French may
ors have been order ed to prosecute per
sons posting the recent manifesto of the
count of Paris.
HALEwsKI, the defaulting postal clerk-
wan to- day convicted and sentenced to
eight years imprisonment at hard labor.
A fellow clerk named Mathanson was dis
charged.
TIE trial of Zalewski, an Austrian
postal clerk, arrested in New York on
charge of having stolen registered letters
valued at $75 1000, has begun.
The trial at Breslau of thirty-seven
socialists, including Deputy Kracker, of
the reichstag, is fixed for October 1.
Or. MACKENZIE is at Milan inquiring as
to a suitable health resort for Crown
Prince Frederick William, of Germany,
TOblach having become too cold.
A DISPATCH from Carbjuen says that
Gen. Komarotf, of the Afghan boundary
commission, started for this city imme-
diately after review of troops at Penjdeh.
TIE census of Paris for 1856, which
has Just been issued, shows an excess of
births over deaths of 1850, against S5,-
| 900 in 1885. The divorces granted III
1856 numbered 2,9t9, against 4.277 in
1885.
NJ. FLoUREMs, Minister of Foreign At
fairs, has submitted to the budget Com
mittee a statement of the Tonquin fin
ances. 1t shows a deficit of 2O,O00,000
frances.
The Duke of Devonshire, in a written
statement in relation to the rumor that
he had been converted to the Irish policy
~ =, ~
out foundation.
The Red Cross conference at Carlsruhe
resolved to request the states adhering
| to the Geneva convention in case of war
to use the autiseptic system in the treat
ment of wounds Immediately upon the
! removal of the injured from the line of
! battle.
ALL the newspapers here publish eulog-
! istic articles on Prince Bismarck's SER
vices to the country in connection with
| the celebration to-day of the twenty fifth
anniversary of his appointment to the
| office of Prussian prime minister.
THE Hamburger Nachri"hten says that
! England has no need of making any con-
! cession to France on the Suez canal Ques-
| ton. If the neutrality of the canal
| quires protection there is no reason why
! such protection should not consist of
| British troops. The presence of any
/ other troops would ne q certain source of
! trouble.
! The report that Baron Blanc, the Ital-
| ian ambassador to Constantinople, had
| counseed the sultan TO refuse to allow
| Russia to occupy Bulgaria, for the reason
that Austria would then occupy Salonica,
is ascertained to be baseless.
SOFIA, Sept. 12-It is stated that when
| the sobranje meets the government will
off, Mikeforof, Zankof, and others sus-
| Prince Alexander.
The Russian Czsr will remain at Copen-
| hagen until the 20th of October. The
| King of Sweden will soon visit the Danish
court and make a prolonged stay. Ac-
corGing to reports the Czsr will meet the
| Emperor of Germany during the visit of
the King of Sweden to the Danish court.
The leader of the London anarchists,
| Victor Dave, is 40 years old, slight, and of
medium height; his pale face bears yet
the traces of his three years imprison-
ment for high treason in Germany. He
wears spectacles, has reddish beard aud
fsiv hair. His forehead is that of man
of mental superiority.
The Sheriff and party of police sailed
in the yacht shannon and surprised
Burke, Lord Clanricarde's tenant, who
occupied Cloudegoff Castle, and evicted
him instantly. After the eviction the
! castle was barricaded and twenty men
were left to defend it. Three thousand
persons gathered, but they were too late
to prevent Burke from being evicted.